Tony Abbott Quotes
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.
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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.
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The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.
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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
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I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
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The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.
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In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.
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One time when I played Australia I had a death threat, and they tried to keep it from me, but I found out. They had all this security backstage, outside the dressing room. I said, "What happens when I walk into the spotlight. I'm a target. So I really don't need all this. You guys can go out and sit in the audience. I think you'd be a lot more useful there." If somebody really wants to do you in nothing will stop them. It's proven by John F.Kennedy, the Pope and Ronald Reagan.
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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
